::pouring over a book for once, and somehow appears to actually be reading it, very determined to complete a certain plan of action, not being able to even bear the thought of Remus having to spend another night alone in highly unsupervised place::

*after class, flops down into one of the chairs with a sigh, her bag lifeless on the floor next to her feet, thinking about how boring Professor Binns really is, closes her eyes and leans her head back, wishing she had the energy to toe her shoes off and get more comfortable*

*out on the pitch, hovering about twenty feet above the ground on his broom, gripping the handle so tightly his knuckles are white, determined to become as good a flyer as James, because then maybe he'd be as popular (especially with Lily, although he'd never admit it to anyone), feeling a stab of resentment at how easy everything is for James and Sirius, when everything always seems so difficult for him*

::sitting in the library trying to read a book on potions in hopes that an early start will keep him from falling too desperatly behind but letting his mind wander to what Lily said about her date with James, and occasionally looking around the room to see if anyone interesting has come in::

*reading a book about trolls, looking at the gruesome pictures with a grimace on her face, but unable to stop reading it, like a train wreck, she can't look away, grinning slightly through her grimace as she reads the morbid story of a troll ripping a man limb from limb*

*sitting in the Common Room, trying to keep his mind on his homework but finding it straying to other things, in particular a certain redhead on the other side of the room, shaking his head when he realizes he's thinking of Lily in that way, wondering where the feelings were coming from all of a sudden*

...actually doing work, for once, a few books from the Restricted Section in hand (thanks to his invisibility cloak), charmed to look like Quidditch manuals to anyone passing by. All of the books are about animagus training, and he's poring over them with a surprising amount of studiousness::

...More than a few books surrounding him, some open, under the ruse of studying... He was instead doodling on the corner of his notes, a little cartoon of Sirius and James dropping water balloons on Severus's head.. The two Gryffindors looked to be laughing, while the Slytherin was quite displeased, a water droplet running down his nose.. Gus's tongue out, pressed up against his top lip as he darkened the lines of the picture::